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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:09:24 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
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On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 04:44:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:09:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > the attached patch implements a new syscall on x86, clone_startup().
> > The parameters are:
> > 
> > 	clone_startup(fn, child_stack, flags, tls_desc, pid_addr)
> 
> First the name souns horrible.  What about spawn_thread or create_thread
> instead?  it's not our good old clone and not a lookalike, it's some
> pthreadish monster..

How about "clone2"?

 -Erik

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